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Nation needs a game plan for problems

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Thursday January 23, 2014 5:00 AM

No Labels is the organization that brought the No Budget, No Pay bill to Congress, in which
Congress members would not get paid unless they passed a budget.

It worked, but there is much more to do, and No Labels is pushing Washington on many fronts. No
Labels is now challenging our nation’s capital, as well as elected officials across the nation, to
undertake a new initiative, but with an old way of doing things, that has served our country and
our people well.

No Labels co-chairmen Jon Huntsman, a former Republican governor of Utah and presidential
candidate, and Joe Manchin III, a West Virginia Democratic senator and former governor, put forth
the strategy that the nation strive to meet at least four essential goals:

1. Create 25 million new jobs over the next 10 years.

2. Reform Medicare and Social Security so they are secure for another 75 years.

3. Balance the federal budget by 2030.

4. Make America energy self-sufficient by 2035.

No Labels commissioned a survey last year in which 97 percent of Americans said it was “
important that our next president be a problem solver.” We must first agree on common goals and a
shared vision, and then we can get down to the nitty-gritty of working out how to get there. It is
time to halt dead-end political posturing. It is time for all of us to push our elected officials
to work for the good of all Americans. It is time for this national strategy.